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Sahih Muslim, 2387
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A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in his (last) illness asked me to call Abu Bakr, her father, and her brother too, so that he might write a document, for he feared that someone else might be desirous (of succeeding him) and that some claimant may say:

I have better claim to it, whereas Allah and the Faithful do not substantiate the claim of anyone but that of Abu Bakr.

حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا صَالِحُ بْنُ كَيْسَانَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي مَرَضِهِ ‏

‏ ادْعِي لِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَأَخَاكِ حَتَّى أَكْتُبَ كِتَابًا فَإِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يَتَمَنَّى مُتَمَنٍّ وَيَقُولَ قَائِلٌ أَنَا أَوْلَى ‏.‏ وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِلاَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1'Ubaidullah bin Sa'idNisapur · d. 241 AH
  2. 2Yazid bin Harunal-Wasit · d. 206 AH
  3. 3Ibrahim bin Sa'd bin IbrahimMedina,Baghdad · d. ~185 AH/800 CE
  4. 4Salah bin Kaysan al-MadniMedina · d. 140 AH or after
  5. 5al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
  6. 6'Urwa ibn al-ZubayrMedina · d. 93 AH/713 CE
  7. 7'Aisha bint Abi BakrMakkah/Medina · d. 57 AH/678 CE (17 Ramadan)
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 44, Hadith 12
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 31, Hadith 5879 (deprecated numbering scheme)